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Convention on Biological Diversity – COP 12. Pyeongchang, South Korea

Michelle Pazmino October 8, 2014 0 Comments

by Michelle Pazmiño // A drum performance at the Opening Ceremony marked the first day of what is going to be a series of meetings where representatives of different Parties negotiate the present and future of earth’s biodiversity: the 12th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Self-evident, this means intense work, hours of being seated at the plenary room,...

[earth] Along Civil Society Organizations Reject the Global Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture

Maria Escalante September 23, 2014 0 Comments

CORPORATE-SMART GREENWASH: WHY WE REJECT THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE ON CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE SEPTEMBER 2014 We, the undersigned civil society organisations, hereby manifest our rejection of the proposed Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture to be launched at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Leaders' Summit. This proposed alliance is a deceptive and deeply contradictory initiative....

10 things that are wrong with this approach to “equity”

COA Admin September 4, 2014 2 Comments

Ever since our own Anjali Appadurai stood before world leaders at the 2011 Durban climate talks to demand “equity now,” echoing a longstanding demand of climate justice movements across the world, there has been an increasing use of the word in discussions on international climate change policy. The idea of equity is contested, as everyone from social movement leaders to former Heads of State...

Against all odds: first social preCOP in Venezuela

Maria Escalante July 28, 2014 0 Comments

by Maria Alejandra Escalante (Spanish version here) Venezuela's government, controversial and criticized by many in the international arena, made the effort to do something that not many other governments would do today: invite more than 130 groups both of Venezuelan and international social organizations and representatives of social movements to Margarita Island for a week (full list of...

Contra viento y marea: la primera preCOP social en Venezuela

Maria Escalante July 28, 2014 0 Comments

por Maria Alejandra Escalante (English version here) El gobierno de Venezuela, criticado por muchos y polémico en el ámbito internacional, se tomó el esfuerzo de hacer algo que no muchos otros gobiernos harían hoy en día: llevar a más de 130 grupos de organizaciones sociales tanto venezolanas como internacionales y a representantes de movimientos sociales a Isla Margarita por una semana...